· Private foundation
The Phil and Linda Hardberger Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $91k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PHIL HARDBERGER PARK CONSERVANCY | $75,000 |
| LUMINARIA | $35,000 |
| HAVEN FOR HOPE | $26,000 |
| TOBIN CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS | $10,000 |
| SAN PEDRO PLAYHOUSE | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY | $10,000 |
| ASIAN RESOURCE CENTER OF SAN ANTONIO | $5,000 |
| GREAT SPRINGS PROJECT | $5,000 |
| KLRN | $1,000 |
| CONRAD SMILES | $250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PHPHIL HARDBERGER PARK CONSERVANCY4× · 2019–2025 · $296k · revenue +147% · 53% of their budget
- LLUMINARIA6× · 2017–2025 · $65k · revenue -23%
- HFHaven for Hope of Bexar County2× · 2023–2025 · $36k · revenue -6%
Funded once
- TCTOBIN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMONG ARTSone grant, 2023 · $10k
- GSGREEN SPACES ALLIANCELINDA HARDBERGER COMMUNITY GARDENS ENDOWMENT FUNDone grant, 2021 · $10k
- TPTHE PUBLIC THEATRE OF SAN ANTONIOone grant, 2023 · $5k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 15 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds PHIL HARDBERGER PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds LUMINARIA ↗
- Who funds Haven for Hope of Bexar County ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SAN PEDRO PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE GREAT SPRINGS PROJECT INC (AUDIT) ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds ASIAN RESOURCE CENTER OF SAN ANTONI ↗
- Who funds ALAMO PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL DOING BUSINESS AS KLRN ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: San Antonio Area Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Phil and Linda Hardberger Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Phil and Linda Hardberger Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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